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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon streamlink

Accessibility Access request

Open ghost opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

Bug report

  • [x] I understand the difference between Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI.
  • [x] This is a bug report and I have read the contribution guidelines.

Environment details

Operating system and version:
macOS 10.14

Streamlink Twitch GUI version:
1.6.0

Streamlink version:
0.14.2

Configuration details:

Description

macOS window shows up when launching stream:

"Accessibility Access (Events) "Streamlink Twitch GUI" would like to control this computer using accessibility features. Grant access to this application Security and Privacy preferences, located in System Preferences."

Expected / Actual behavior

The window shouldn't show up

Reproduction steps

Start a stream

Additional comments, screenshots, etc.

If it's an expected behavior, why does the software needs this access?

ghost avatar Oct 01 '18 05:10 ghost

I can not confirm this. The window did not pop up for me and Streamlink-Twitch-GUI is not listed under Privacy->Accessibility in system preferences.

Streamlink: 0.14.2 maxOS: 10.14 (Mojave) GUI: 1.6.0 (installed via brew)

EDIT: I take that back. Just happened to me too

skulblakka avatar Oct 02 '18 10:10 skulblakka

https://www.howtogeek.com/297083/why-do-some-mac-apps-need-to-control-this-computer-using-accessibility-features/

I haven't seen this in any of my macOS VMs yet, but I also didn't install 10.14 yet, so maybe something has changed there.

All the Twitch GUI does when launching a stream is looking up Python, Streamlink and the player executable and then it executes Python with the necessary parameters. There's also a debug/error log being written to your ${HOME}/Library/ directory and icons for desktop notifications are cached in there, too. Other than that, it's just a regular NW.js application and everything beyond that can't be controlled by the app itself.

So yeah, I don't know what is causing this accessibility access request message to pop up, as there are a few different reasons for that.

bastimeyer avatar Oct 02 '18 17:10 bastimeyer

I reinstalled the computer, installed streamlink, streamlink twitch GUI and VLC all via brew, and it still happens.

ghost avatar Oct 03 '18 23:10 ghost